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But how do I organize it all?
Hello everyone. I'm new to this comm, ebooks and ereaders, not fanfic though. A few months ago I went into a fanfic panic because I heard delicious was shutting down. I backed up what I could to diggo and was ok. It wasn't until I was tagging and adding descriptions to some old fic in delicious that I realized some of the fic was gone. The journal was either deleted or purged, friends only, etc. That's when I got the idea of saving all of my favorite fics. I liked the idea of having my fic library anywhere I go. Instead of buying a Nook, Kindle, or Sony ereader, I purchased an iPad. At first, I looked for a program that would save and convert webpages into PDFs in a huge batch. Nope. It looks like I have to convert all my fic manually (all 400+) of it. FanfictionDownloader saved me a lot of time. ArchieveofOurOwn allows downloads of their fanfiction as well. So does ksarchive (kirk/spock fanfiction archive) and kmarchive (kirk/mccoy fanfiction archive).
Now I have all these PDFs all over the place. I manually added ratings, my own custom genre/category tag (by ships: kirk/spock, sylar/peter, etc). That was the only way I could keep my ships separate in iTunes. Then someone told me to download calibre. With that, I changed titles, authors, added tags, etc. The downside is that when I sent fic from there to my iTunes, it sent it by author. I group things by fandom, ship, trope, other so sorting by author did not help. Due to that, I haven't bothered syncing any more calibre info to my iTunes and went back to doing it the old way with my genre/categories.
I get ready for iPad and it tells me to download iBooks to read my PDFs. I hate this program only because it's not organized the way I want it. I can't organize or search by tag, descriptions don't show up or ratings. You get category, author and title. You can make collections (such as by ship) but you still only get titles, authors and category. Useless if you have over 400 titles and can't remember story content. I tried stanza and even though it synced with my calibre, it still will not download the content from the web to my iPad.
So my question is, is there some app or program that I can use on my iPad to organize my pdfs (by rating, tag, see descriptions, genre, etc) and read them?
Now I have all these PDFs all over the place. I manually added ratings, my own custom genre/category tag (by ships: kirk/spock, sylar/peter, etc). That was the only way I could keep my ships separate in iTunes. Then someone told me to download calibre. With that, I changed titles, authors, added tags, etc. The downside is that when I sent fic from there to my iTunes, it sent it by author. I group things by fandom, ship, trope, other so sorting by author did not help. Due to that, I haven't bothered syncing any more calibre info to my iTunes and went back to doing it the old way with my genre/categories.
I get ready for iPad and it tells me to download iBooks to read my PDFs. I hate this program only because it's not organized the way I want it. I can't organize or search by tag, descriptions don't show up or ratings. You get category, author and title. You can make collections (such as by ship) but you still only get titles, authors and category. Useless if you have over 400 titles and can't remember story content. I tried stanza and even though it synced with my calibre, it still will not download the content from the web to my iPad.
So my question is, is there some app or program that I can use on my iPad to organize my pdfs (by rating, tag, see descriptions, genre, etc) and read them?
for some odd reason
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